A system monitor for your Mac.
Your Mac's vital signs, one glance away in the menu bar, with a dashboard, widgets and a live desktop panel when you want more. Everything is measured on the Mac itself.
From a glance to the whole picture.
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In the menu bar
CPU and memory are always there, free. Pro adds GPU, battery, network and storage, as icons, values or level bars.
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In the dashboard
One window for the whole Mac: Overview, CPU, Memory, Battery, Storage and Network, and with Pro the displays, the Neural Engine, thermals and connected devices.
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On your desktop
With Pro, widgets for the desktop and Notification Center, and a live panel that updates with every reading.
Pro
A week of readings, in plain words.
Insights reads the last seven days and writes up what it finds: a health score and the reasons behind it, trends, forecasts, and anomalies worth a look.
The summary is written on your Mac by Apple Intelligence, using Apple's on-device model, so your readings go nowhere. Without Apple Intelligence, Helix writes it itself.
Free, with Pro.
Helix is free to use. Pro is a one-time purchase with a 14-day free trial that adds the rest. It is not a subscription.
Free
- Menu barCPU and memory readings.
- OverviewThe whole Mac at a glance: CPU, memory, GPU and battery gauges, a history chart and your network.
- CPULoad for each core, with performance and efficiency cores grouped.
- MemoryMemory in use, its breakdown, pressure and swap.
- BatteryCharge and time remaining, power, health, cycle count and capacity, with a charge history.
- StorageCapacity and free space, the drive's model, and read and write activity.
- NetworkYour connection, Wi-Fi signal and link details, speeds and routing.
Pro
- InsightsA health score, trends, forecasts and anomalies from a week of history, written up by Apple Intelligence.
- Every menu bar reading and styleGPU, battery, network and storage beside CPU and memory, as icons, values or level bars.
- Displays & GPUEvery display's resolution and refresh rate, GPU load and the apps using it.
- Neural EngineThe Neural Engine's hardware and the apps holding it open.
- ThermalsmacOS's thermal state and the battery's power.
- Connected devicesExternal drives, Thunderbolt, USB and Bluetooth.
- Widgets and the live desktop panelDesktop and Notification Center widgets, and a panel that updates with every reading.
Nothing leaves your Mac.
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No account, no analytics
Helix has no sign-in, and no analytics, ads or tracking.
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It stays on your Mac
What Helix measures is shown to you and kept for seven days in the app's own storage. Helix does not connect to the internet.
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One permission, only if you choose
To show your Wi-Fi network's name, macOS asks whether Helix may use Location. Helix never uses or stores it, and if you decline, only the name is missing.